Understanding Ethnic-Racial Identity in a Context Where “Race” Is Taboo

Juang, Linda P.; Moffitt, Ursula; Schachner, Maja K.; Pevec, Sharleen

doi:10.1080/15283488.2021.1932901

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“…It was not until 2000 that respondents could choose more than one category, but obviously people have had mixed-ethnic/racial backgrounds all along; we just did not attend to them. The subjectivity and constructed nature of racial/ethnic categories becomes even more apparent when looking internationally, where even in supposedly "culturally-similar" Western Europe we do not seen racial/ethnic categories that bear any resemblance to what is used in the U.S. (Gyberg et al, 2021;Juang et al, 2021;Jugert et al, 2021). Similar problems come up with other group categories: what countries are Western?…”

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Reproducibility, Diversity, and the Crisis of Inference in Psychology

Syed¹

2021

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Psychological researchers have long sought to make universal claims about behavior and mental processes. The various crises in psychology—reproducibility, replication, measurement, theory, generalizability—have all demonstrated that such claims are premature, and perhaps impossible using mainstream theoretical and methodological approaches. Both the lack of diversity of samples and simplistic conceptualizations of diversity (e.g., WEIRD, individualism/collectivism) have contributed to an “inference crisis,” in which researchers are ill equipped to make sense of group variation in psychological phenomena, particularly with respect to race/ethnicity. This talk will highlight how the lack of sophisticated frameworks for understanding racial/ethnic differences is a major barrier to developing a reproducible, cumulative psychology.

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Reproducibility, Diversity, and the Crisis of Inference in Psychology

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2021

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“…The bulk of research on ERI and ERS has been conducted in the United States and it is, therefore, less clear how these constructs can be applied to different cultural contexts (cf. Juang, Moffitt, Schachner, & Pevec, n.d.). For instance, Markus (2008) argued that race and ethnicity differ in that individuals have more say in defining their ethnicity than their race.…”

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Researching race‐ethnicity in race‐mute Europe

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Infant and Child Development

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In Germany and continental Europe, more broadly, race and ethnicity are concepts that are not widely used and are increasingly erased from the legislation. Nevertheless, race and ethnicity are still used as social markers and often merely replaced with other terms (e.g., cultural background). The goal of this paper is threefold. First, we point to the danger of treating race and ethnicity as essentialist categories, which is still common in developmental science research. Second, we want to outline specific problems that occur when doing research on ethnicity and race with children and adolescents in the European race-mute context. Third, we suggest that future research ought to focus more on constructions of Whiteness and reproduction of power differences among ethnic majority populations. In doing so, we draw on examples from our own research on ethnic-racial identity and ethnic-racial socialization.

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“…Some initial findings also suggest that deviating from master narratives without having a group to commune with can pose challenges to identity development. Our research on this topic has focused on immigrant identities in Europe, for which there are not well-defined ethnic/racial groups that provide a sense of belonging as there are in the U.S. (Juang et al, 2021;Juggert et al, 2021). For example, a comparative study of ethnic identity among immigrants in Sweden and the U.S. showed stark differences in how master narrative deviations played out; whereas the U.S. participants found belonging in their deviations, this was quite uncommon for Swedish participants.…”

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Who Gets to Live the Good Life? Master Narratives, Identity, and Well-Being within a Marginalizing Society

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2021

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The question of what constitutes “the good life” is incomplete without also addressing the question of who gets to live the good life. Implicit in many discussions of the good life, particularly in American and Western European contexts, is that it is equally available to all members of society, and attainable via malleable dispositions (e.g., changing attitudes, self-relevant beliefs). In this way, the good life is experienced through a highly agentic process of self-discovery and environmental mastery. What is generally lacking in this work is a serious reckoning of how structural factors constrain access to unbounded agency, particularly for those individuals who are marginalized in society due to race, gender, sexuality, and other factors. Moreover, “the good life” fundamentally indexes individuals’ well-being, and thus any claims to the good life will depend on how well-being is defined. Throughout psychology well-being is most commonly defined in terms of positive subjective states (e.g., hedonia, eudaimonia) that again remove any consideration of external criteria or demands. In this paper, we put the preceding together by outlining how a master narrative perspective—which examines the culturally shared stories that guide thoughts, beliefs, values, and behaviors—brings attention to the structural constraints on well-being among individuals in marginalized positions in society. We also propose an alternative conceptualization of the good life, which includes the importance of interpersonal connection between those who share the experience of marginalization.

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Understanding Ethnic-Racial Identity in a Context Where “Race” Is Taboo

Cited by 47 publications

References 61 publications

Reproducibility, Diversity, and the Crisis of Inference in Psychology

Reproducibility, Diversity, and the Crisis of Inference in Psychology

Researching race‐ethnicity in race‐mute Europe

Who Gets to Live the Good Life? Master Narratives, Identity, and Well-Being within a Marginalizing Society

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